Before you read the rest of this post, let me ask you a question:

Have you ever had a fly land on your face?

My childhood was spent in the semi-tropics, but I can honestly say that while I had to swat away mosquitoes in the summer, I had never had a fly land on my face.

But flies seem to have an affinity for certain people.

“Lord of the Flies”is the literal meaning of βεελζεβούβ, the Greek word for Beelzebub.

Beelzebub — derived from Ba‘al Zebûb, a Semitic deity worshiped in the Philistine city of Ekron — is the name of one of the seven princes of Hell. Later Christians used the name Beelzebub as a term for Satan.

Flies have an affinity for Barack Obama.

The first time the phenomenon was noted was during the 2008 presidential campaign that ended in Obama being voted into…